. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . oint laces are nowmade there, such as Alencon, Burano Point, Brussels Point, Rose Point de Venise,and Point dAngleterre. Moorish Lace. A lace work made in Morocco, and used as an edging to household linen andwomens dresses in the harems. It is of little artistic or commercial value. A coarse-patterned lace was made by the Moors in the sixteenth had evidently learned the art of lace-maki
. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . oint laces are nowmade there, such as Alencon, Burano Point, Brussels Point, Rose Point de Venise,and Point dAngleterre. Moorish Lace. A lace work made in Morocco, and used as an edging to household linen andwomens dresses in the harems. It is of little artistic or commercial value. A coarse-patterned lace was made by the Moors in the sixteenth had evidently learned the art of lace-making in a perfunctory manner fromthe Spaniards or the Maltese, as the patterns show : these are of the geometricaltype. This lace is no longer manufactured, but may sometimes be acquired inthe native towns. It is one of the laces mentioned in the Revolte des Passamus,a poem written in 1661. Needle = point. A name given to all kinds of lace worked with a needle, as distinct frombobbin-worked lace or point lace, which last term refers to the fine quality,and may indicate either Needle-point or bobbin-made. Normandy Laces. The bobbin lace of Normandy forms an essential part in the costume of the. Reproduction of Gros Point de Venise, made with needle-point bars and fillings, with machine-made tape andcordonnet over-sewn ; nineteenth century. 184 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. peasants, whose caps, having rich lappets of lace, are handed down fromgeneration to generation; those of the present day vary little from the kindworn in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Lace-making has always been theprincipal occupation of the wives and daughters of the Normandy fishermen. Thelace trade made rapid strides in the eighteenth century. From Arras to St. Malothere were no fewer than thirty centres of indust^; these chiefly imitated thepillow laces of Mechlin. Black thread laces were also made, besides the gold andsilver guipures used for ecclesiastical purposes. Petit Poussin, Ave Maria, Pointd
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